I Became the Older Brother of the Heroine in an Abusive Novel

When the two returned to Jinling City, the disaster had initially been brought under control, and the rain had gradually stopped.

The sun was setting and the clouds on the horizon revealed gaps, and the golden sunset shone through the clouds, illuminating the surface of the river with sparkling light.

The two of them rushed to the government office all the way.

Unexpectedly, Zhifu Shen was already waiting outside the government office.When Jun Huailang got off the car, he saw Zhifu Shen standing in front of Xue Yan who got off the car first, with a look of embarrassment on his face.

"My lord, it's not that the lower officials want to interfere with what you're doing... It's just that most of the officials in the government office have been sent to provide disaster relief. You have imprisoned so many people at once, and you can't take care of them."

Xue Yan said indifferently: "I don't need your people, I have someone I can use."

The embarrassment on Shen Zhifu's face was even worse.

"It's just that these people... don't know whether they are refugees or bandits. If you want to imprison them all rashly, it will attract criticism!"

Without waiting for Xue Yan to speak, he hurriedly continued: "The city suddenly encountered such a catastrophe, and there were many refugees, all of whom were displaced and fled everywhere. Now it is rumored in the city...that you detained innocent refugees for no reason, and beat them as Bandits, everyone in the city is panicking!"

Jun Huailang could tell that it was Xue Yan's decision today that caused rumors.

Now that the city is already suffering from disasters, the most taboo thing is the uncertainty of people's hearts.I don't know if someone deliberately spread the rumors, or if there are too many arrests today, attracting attention, or...

Or among those people, are there really common people mixed in?

In the face of a catastrophe, a little incitement to the people around them will allow others to join their ranks.As long as ordinary people are mixed in among their people, if they are all detained in the name of bandits, it will cause riots.

Jun Huailang realized that the person behind him must have been prepared and calculated every step of the way.

When Xue Yan heard this, he frowned and didn't take it seriously at all: "As long as you don't make trouble, what impact will it have?"

He has heard a lot of misunderstandings from others, and he has long since become a habit, so he is also used to arbitrariness, and does not pay attention to other people's words at all.

I didn't bother to explain to Zhifu Shen.

Shen Zhifu faltered and couldn't speak, but still blocked him from moving away.

Jun Huailang hurried forward.

"Master Zhifu," he said. "The reason why the lord does not let people go is that there are indeed plots in the academy."

Shen Zhifu hurriedly asked: "Where did the son know?"

Jun Huailang handed the blueprint in his hand to Prefect Shen.

"Let's see, magistrate, this is the situation where the dam collapsed today. The place where the dam collapsed was clearly not caused by erosion from the river, but someone deliberately dug it from the city and damaged the dam."

Shen Zhifu was shocked: "How could this happen!"

Jun Huailang continued: "The place where the dam was destroyed was the place where the official road was repaired a few days ago. And that day, when I came back from the academy, I happened to meet a team of migrant workers building roads. One of the foremen was the one who was working there today. The one who took the lead in making trouble in the academy."

Shen Zhifu froze in place.

Jun Huailang continued: "My lord, all of this can't be a coincidence. There will be people who destroy the dam and go to the academy to try to hurt the students. Such a person can actually work for the government...My lord, you should know that the lord will kill them all. Is there a reason for being locked up?"

Shen Zhifu mumbled: "You mean... people in the government...?"

Jun Huailang nodded.

"This matter can only be done by the prince," he said. "Otherwise, others will always be alarmed."

For a moment, Shen Zhifu nodded.

In this way, Xue Yan's notoriety has actually become a protective umbrella.Xue Yan was violent and arrested everyone for no apparent reason, but it would reassure the people behind the scenes that he hadn't shown his feet.

"So these things must not be known to others." Jun Huailang said. "The prefect, please let the wind out. He only said that this group of people hurt the students in the academy. The situation is extremely tragic. It was only when King Guangling saw them that he arrested them all, just to vent their anger on the students."

Shen Zhifu murmured: "If you don't cleanse the prince's notoriety, instead you will expand the notoriety of those gangsters. This will not only appease the hearts of the people, but also act as a deterrent. At the same time, it can also make the queen mother relax her vigilance?"

Jun Huailang nodded.

After a while, Shen Zhifu sighed: "Duke Yongning taught you very well indeed."

Jun Huailang knew that this was the prefect Shen who agreed to his proposal.

He continued: "Then, please promise me, sir, that you must never tell anyone...not even my father."

Because he knew that those who interfered with it would most likely be under his father's command.

Shen Zhifu nodded in agreement, and then said after a while: "If there is such a person in the government... then Jinling's catastrophe is all due to the incomprehension of the officials, and it is my fault."

Jun Huailang shook his head.

"Your Majesty is right," he said. "It's the people who arranged this behind the scenes who were wrong."

Prefect Shen responded.At this moment, some officials came to ask the magistrate Shen about the resettlement of the refugees.

Prefect Shen couldn't stay any longer, so he said goodbye and went ahead.

Jun Huailang sent the prefect Shen away.

He turned around, and when he was about to talk to Xue Yan, he realized that Xue Yan was staring at him for an unknown how long.

With fiery eyes and a lazy smile, Jun Huailang's heart tightened when he saw it.

"...What are you looking at?" His voice dropped involuntarily.

Xue Yan smiled faintly.

Then, Xue Yan raised his hand, and gently scratched his cheek with his knuckles.

"Didn't see it," he said. "It's a lot of crazy ideas."

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It wasn't until Jun Huailang sat down in the cell that the heat on his face dissipated.

Jin Yiwei brought him a grand master's chair, which was padded with thick cushions.Jun Huailang sat down there, and hot tea was delivered to him.

He looked up, and the foreman was tied up in front of him.

Because of Jun Huailang's previous order, the foreman didn't receive much punishment. Now he was tied to the frame, with only Xue Yan's wounds on his body.

The rest of the place can't be seen, only the bridge of the nose is bruised.

"I don't like torture." Jun Huailang said after taking a sip of tea. "However, I have all the information related to you now."

The foreman raised his head slowly.

Then Jun Huailang continued: "You supervise the road construction project, and all the workers listen to your orders. Except for the officials, no one else can enter and exit the construction site, and there are traces of your digging on the embankment. Now the city is suffering from such A big disaster, so many people died, even if you don’t say anything, we can directly ask and kill all the road construction workers, the whole family.”

The foreman was watching him.

Jun Huailang met his gaze: "So, I am giving you a chance today, not to give you and your subordinates a chance to survive, but to give you a chance to keep the rest of your family."

As he spoke, he slowly put down the teacup.

"Cutting all over the house...I don't like it very much myself."

"I have a wife and children at home, and you know that too?" The foreman said with a hoarse laugh.

Jun Huailang looked at him quietly.

The man was silent for a long time.

"But I can't save them either," he said. "I know what you want to ask. Who drove me, what orders did they give, and how many people conspired with me, right?"

Jun Huailang didn't say anything, which was regarded as tacit consent.

The man laughed self-deprecatingly.

"Even if you ask me, I don't know anything."

Jun Huailang frowned.

Just listen to him continue.

"I am a native of Jinling. I don't know who gave me the order. I only know that if I don't do things for them, my wife and children will suffer, but if I do, I will get a lot of money. into my hands.

What they want me to do is what you see now.Destroying the dams, causing disasters in Jinling, and then rushing to the academy, killed and injured as many scholars as possible.As for the people under me... I can only order them when doing things, but they and I don't know each other's details.Someone is watching us, and we can never reveal it to Hu Xiang. "

Jun Huailang's gaze sank.

Although there is no valid information in what this person said, it is consistent with the information he has found before.

It's not like he's lying.

But...how could anyone make such an arrangement in the well-ordered Jinling City, under Xue Yan's eyes?

"...When did those people find you?" Jun Huailang asked after being silent for a moment.

"Three years ago," said the man.

Jun Huailang was startled: "Three years ago?"

"tell him. "It's just that at that time, they didn't tell me what to do. I was originally from the Jianghu, and after I got married, I settled down in Jinling. At that time, I fought with people and seriously injured them, which made my family deeply in debt and desperate. They paid for me. One family solved the crisis, and after that, they put me under their orders."

Only then did Jun Huailang suddenly realize what was the cause of the tragedy of Jinling City and Jun's family in the previous life, the unpredictability of this life, and the hard-to-find minions in the ranks of officials.

It was because the people behind it had already made arrangements, and before they came, they had already compiled a tight network.

No matter who steps in, there will be no place for burial.

The south of the Yangtze River has a lot of rain, and it is not uncommon for rivers to divert and dams to burst.

And the people behind it were already prepared.They buried their own people in Jinling City, leaving no trace on weekdays, but as long as there are officials sent from Beijing, they can use the original layout to pull each other into the quagmire.

First, the sudden disaster, and then the violence of the refugees, caused a large number of casualties among Jiangnan students who gathered in Jinling to prepare for the exam.After that, taking advantage of the chaos to embezzle gold and silver, and plant it on the officials who came.

In this way, they not only achieve the purpose of harming others, but also profit a lot from it. Perhaps they will stand up at this time and make meritorious deeds, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Even if the person who came was not the one they wanted to kill, but their own subordinates, then this arrangement would not fail.As long as these arranged people make some disturbances, and then let them solve it, direct and act in a play by themselves, the political achievements will naturally be obtained.

Jun Huailang's back felt cold.

Those people regarded the rest of the officials and the people of Dayong as pawns for their profit.

His heart can be punished.

He slowly stood up from the seat, waved his hand, and signaled the guards around him not to follow, and walked out of the cell alone.

It's ridiculous to say that now he has seen through every move made by the opponent, but because the opponent's move was too early and hidden too deeply, even if he had some understanding of the situation in the North Korea and China in his previous life, and he had a general direction in his heart, he still couldn't decide what to do. Who is it.

Besides...even if he knew, how could he compete with them as a white man without an official position even if he took advantage of his strength and was thousands of miles away from the south of the Yangtze River.

He walked out of the cell slowly, immersed in his own thoughts.

At this moment, he suddenly bumped into a chest.

Hard and strong, filled with a long and deep sandalwood.

"What's wrong?" Xue Yan lowered his head and asked.

Jun Huailang didn't know that when he raised his head, his eyes were bloodshot.

The water is looming, and it looks very pitiful.

With one hand, Xue Yan hugged him into his arms.

"Okay, it's okay." He raised his other hand, pressed it on the back of Jun Huailang's head, and forced his face into the socket of his neck.

"Didn't come out of the trial? It's okay, everything is up to me."